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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump is angrily denying a report that he made disparaging remarks about U.S. service members who have been captured or killed, including that he described Americ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. unemployment rate fell sharply in August to 8.4% from 10.2% even as hiring slowed, with employers adding the fewest jobs since the pandemic began. Employers added 1.4 million job...

LISBON, Portugal - A Portuguese hacker whose explosive revelations rattled European soccer told judges at the start of his trial Friday that he was "disgusted" by what he uncovered and had acted in th...

MALMO, Sweden - Desperate for a drink? There is spit-fermented wine, liquor fermented in prison toilets, and a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel. The Disgusting Food...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The mayors of Prague and Taipei announced new areas of co-operation for the two sister cities, including orchestra tours, on Friday as a Czech delegation concluded a weeklong visit to...

TORONTO - In another year at another time, this would be a busy weekend for Joseph Hicks. With the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston to face the Red Sox and the Toronto Raptors and Boston Cel...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 4 ... What...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will report this morning how well the country's job market fared in August. After seeing a historic drop of some three million jobs over March and April at the height of the...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's party leaders are back on the election campaign trail today following last night's first debate. They will concentrate their efforts in the Fredericton and Moncton areas....

BANGKOK - She's 15, writes love stories and likes indie music and anime cartoons. So far so normal. But two weeks ago Benjamaporn Nivas upended traditional notions of Thai schoolkids' behaviour by lea...